DigitalOcean empowers developers to build great software - faster. Over 50,000 teams around the world rely on DigitalOcean to run their company's application workloads. From servers that scale up in seconds to solutions for high availability, data storage, security, and networking, developers rely on us to uncomplicate their infrastructure. With DigitalOcean, users can run distributed SaaS applications, process and analyze datasets, automate testing their code, and deploy open source monitoring and logging tools.

Reporting to the VP of Engineering, the Director of Developer Tools is a strategic thinker and member of the technology leadership team. Your teams will be focused on improving how our customers interact with the infrastructure DigitalOcean provides -- through UIs, APIs and integrations with tools and platforms. Working closely with the design team you are striving to lower the friction in their workflows. How do teams build, test, deploy, monitor, debug, scale, and reason about their applications in the cloud? How do developers really think, and how is that changing as new technologies and capabilities become more mainstream? Heady stuff!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Working in close partnership with Product Management, Design and the core product pillars (compute, network and storage) develop a short and long term vision for the Developer Tools business. Translate the vision into an actionable roadmap of products, projects and outcomes.
• Develop quarterly goals and objectives that help keep your teams aligned with the vision and higher-level company goals.
• Through direct and indirect methods see to the delivery of your organization’s projects, initiatives and commitments
• Make large prioritization decisions, and tradeoffs between schedule, scope, cost
• Attract, develop and retain the people required to deliver your plan.
• Actively coach and develop the managers and technical leaders within your organization, and create a healthy culture that supports delivery over the long term
• Command the economics tied to your organization. This includes ROI considerations, revenue impact, margin, opex and capex budgets.
• Actively participate in the yearly and quarterly budget process and make strategic and tactical decisions to manage to these budgets
• Be an active communicator within DigitalOcean in written and spoken form. Routinely present at company AMAs.
• As a director you will be expected to drive a company initiative that does not fit nicely in a box, or has impact beyond your immediate organization

What We'll Expect From You:

• A history of building and delivering applications in the cloud and the scars to prove it.
• Real miles with CI, CD, micro-services and highly-available, large-scale systems.
• A decent background in identity and access management systems.
• Enough architecture and engineering chops to hold your teams to high standards.
• A strong, pragmatic leader, that values both delivery speed and code/systems quality.
• An open mind and healthy intuition about emerging development trends.
• A analytical mind that seeks out the data to back up their intuition.
• A history of building and leading high performing distributed teams.
• A good systems thinker, who understands complex organisations, systems and how to work effectively in a complex environment.
• A leader comfortable with ambiguity, and leading teams through it.
• A good cross functional collaborator.
• An effective communicator in written and spoken forms.
• A leader comfortable with build, buy, partner decisions.

Why You'll Like Working at DigitalOcean:

• We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and coolest people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. Archery classes, DJ lessons, and office pie fights are a thing. We care deeply about each other and take our “no jerks” rule very seriously.
• We value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development. You’ll need to be great to get hired here and we promise you’ll get even better.
• We care about you. We offer competitive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents, a monthly gym reimbursement to support your physical health, and a monthly commute allowance to make your trips to and from work easier.
• We invest in your future. We offer competitive compensation and a 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match. We also provide all employees with Kindles and reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We want you to love where you work. We have a great office space located in the heart of SoHo NYC and offer daily catered lunches to keep your hunger at bay. We’re also very remote-friendly—we use Slack to communicate across the company—and all remote employees have the opportunity to take an all-expense-paid trip to our HQ to get quality in-person time with the team at least once a year. We also allow employees to customize their workstations to meet their needs—whether remote or in HQ.

We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.